Choose the best answer for each of the following questions. 1) Which of the foll
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Choose the best answer for each of the following questions.
1) Which of the following is a characteristic of the “new breed” of single mothers?
a) They have deliberately (rather than accidentally) become pregnant.
b) They are in their late-twenties to mid-thirties.
c) They occupy the upper tiers of income, education, and occupation.
d) All of these choices
2) Which of the following are a potential ethical and social difficulty surrounding reproductive technologies?
a)i ncest potential and eugenics
b) eugenics and sex selection
c) sex selection and incest potential
d) incest potential, eugenics, and sex selection
3) Dolce and Gabbana argue that surrogacy is
a) exploitative.
b) unnatural.
c) dangerous.
d) all of these choices.
4) What is pharming?
a) the use of animal cloning to produce drugs
b) the use of animal cloning to produce higher-yield food animals
c) a type of gene therapy
d) the cloning technique used to produce Dolly
5) What factor or factors might undermine egg donors’ informed consent?
a) age
b) relative inexperience
c) the need for money
d) all of these choices
6) A gestational surrogate is
a) another term for an egg donor.
b) a “host mother” who is implanted with an embryo from another woman.
c) another term for a sperm donor.
d) a woman who has had one of her own eggs removed, fertilized and then implanted back into her.
Explanation / Answer
1) New breed of single mothers is a characteristic of women who are financially independent, are able to carry out their own responsibilities. They generally have a vibtant, affluent social life by which they can easily carry out the responsibility of their child and do not need to adjust to live with their husbands by force.
Choice (a) is a correct option as these women by will tend to give birth to babies by the modern techniques of In Vitro Fertilisation where females do not necessarily need partners to conceive.
Choice (B) is also correct. But it may also take place in the case od divorced mothers who are above 40.
Choice (C) is the most correct option as to carry out the process of IVF and nurture the child thereafter financial affluency is utmostly required.
So, choice (D) is the correct answer as all these above statements are correct.
2) Incest potential is the ability to reproduce between near ones, for example, between father and daughter ,or, between siblings. This issue has a potential social and ethical impact so it poses a difficulty to reproductive technologies.
Eugenics is the science of production of selectively fit individuals and thereby modification of a particular species by selective breeding and exclusion of unfit individuals from reproducing. This lead to a massive social and ethical revolution in US in late 19th century.
So, option (A) is correct.
Sex selection is the desire to have child of desired sex. This is not entetained in most countries.
If we discard sex selection then including incest potential and eugenics option (A) is the answer.
3)Surrogacy is done by a couple on their will when they cannot reproduce normally. So we cannot say that it is exploitative, so option (A) is incorrect.
It is definitely an artificial method ogf reproduction where sperm is implanted artificially in a woman . So, option (B) is correct.
We cannot say that it is dangerous because of moidern medical advancements. So, option (C) is incorrect.
As allthe options are not correct so (D) is not correct.
Option (B) is the correct answer.
4) Pharming is the term related to Pharmacology. Here genetically modified organisms are used to produce substances that can be of pharmaceutical purposes.
So option (A) is correct. Option (B) is not the purpose of pharming. It is a type of genetic modification so option (C) is not correct. Dolly was not used for pharmaceutical purposes so option (D) is not correct.
Option (A) is the correct answer.
5) Relative inexperience or, Need for money will not undermine egg donors’ informed consent. So, option (C) &(D) is not correct. Thereby option (D) is also not correct.
Age can be a factor as women's egg formation capacity is not same throughout their life. So, option (D) is correct.
6) Gestational surrogate is never a sperm donor so option (c) is excluded.
She is not giving her own egg so option (A) is not correct.
In this case, egg from real mother is taken out and fertilized with sperm of father by IVF and then embryo is implanted into surrogate mother. So, option (B) is correct.
As the embryo is not implanted into the biological mother herself so option (D) is not correct.
So, option (B) is the answer.